Tom Stoppard Plays: 5 by Tom Stoppard
A collection including Arcadia, The Real Thing, Night & Day, Indian Ink, and, one of my top 5 favorite plays, Hapgood.
Seriously, why hasn’t anyone done Hapgood around here? Stacey looks at me pitifully when I’ve asked her that repeatedly over the 13 years I’ve known her. She just doesn’t think it would sell, or something. Ha! Tom Stoppard! Spies! Intrigue! Humor! Strong female lead!
I saw a production at Northwestern that was perfect. I guess I’m just asking for trouble wanting to see it again.
Anyway, the other plays in here are good, too.
Yeah, why HASN’T anyone ever done Hapgood around here? You’d think that at the very least, Theater Emory or DramaTech could team up with their Physics departments. I’d love to see Hapgood, because I’ve only read it and I think there’s stuff you can’t “get” unless you see it acted out. I feel the same way about Jumpers.
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